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BIrth of a Ninja Movie
30 NINJAS: James McTeigue, the films director, said that the Wachowskis came up with the concept of the film while talking with you and your company. Were you part of that discussion?
CS: Well, I guess it all started when we began shooting Speed Racer in Berlin at Babelsberg Studios. My partner, Dave Leitch, and I were over there we often work with Larry and Andy [Wachowski] on most of their [movies], as their stunt coordinators and choreographers. It was our job to teach some of the cast to do some of the funnier fight scenes in the movie and train the cast on some fight choreography and techniques. A couple of weeks into production, Larry introduced us to a Korean pop star named Rain, who Id never heard of before. At first Rain wasnt initially included in much of the action sequences, so Larry asked us to take a look at him and give a quick little evaluation of what he could do. Dave and I already had our work cut out for us, so we were like, OK, well give him a move or two and see how he does. We thought, just give him some loud sound effects and all will be good.
So Rain comes in for the first day of training, and he picked up not one, not two, not three moves he picked up everything that we threw at him, very, very quickly. Granted they were very easy motions, but he moves like a professional. Rain was still getting his English going, and a lot of it was still through a Korean interpreter, and Rain was also very, very quiet and very shy to us at the time, but it became very obvious that he had immense physical skills. So in the next couple of days in training we started pushing him more and more. More for our own amusement, to see how far he could go and how good he really was on the outside parameters of his talent. Well, two weeks later, we still hadnt hit those outer reaches he was picking up choreography, he had a fantastic memory, and his energy and performance were fantastic. His martial arts were a little rough on the edges but physically, he was capable of doing anything that we threw at him.
So we went to Larry and Andy a couple of weeks later to show them the rehearsal tapes (we had shot a little rehearsal, not really related to Speed Racer, just to show them how good he was). At the time, Larry and Andy hadnt seen how good he was either; they had just met him somewhat formally. So we showed the tapes to them, and they were like, Wow, hes really good! And we were like, Yeah, hes really good. We should give him some more stuff in the movie. So we ended up doing a couple of different fight scenes, and granted, Speed Racer wasnt a fight movie, but we tried to put in a few little things to show off Rains physical promise. Well, as time went on Rain continued to train with us, even after hed shot his sequences, just to have fun and get a little time off set. Wed known Larry and Andy since the first Matrix movie, so wed always joked about doing one of our favorite types of movies: We liked Bruce Lee movies, we liked comic books, and we like anime and everyone loves ninja movies and wed love to do a ninja movie. Larry always said, Ninjas, ninjas are great.
So a couple weeks later, after wed worked [even more] with Rain, we went back to Larry and Andy after lunch, and said, Hey, we think we found the guy for your ninja movie. And we showed him more tapes of Rain doing his thing, and we talked about it, and then that was all that was said. Speed Racer wraps, and about a month and a half later, we get a phone call from Larry Wachowski: Lets do a ninja movie. Well keep it small, and well do a fun little ninja movie. Well bring all the guys back, and well have fun. And thats kinda how it all got started. They got James [McTeigue] on board, and they started doing the writing, and we started getting our stunt team together, because everyone wanted to make it very much a stunt and fight movie, and we got in some of our best guys through our company.
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